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  • An Emergency-Room Doctor Wrote, "Recently We Saw ...  PRO

    Contributed by Curtis Rowe on Aug 4, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,820 views

    An Emergency-room doctor wrote, "Recently we saw another preview of hell in the Parkland Hospital in Dallas. A woman struck down by a drunken driver. A college student lying semi-conscious following a head on collision with another drunk driver who himself was critically injured. The drunk's ...read more

  • Identify With The Lost

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
     | 3,083 views

    IDENTIFY WITH THE LOST In her famous book and film, "The Hiding Place" Corrie ten Boom tells the story of a Dutch Christian family, her family, who had a heart for the Jewish people. Her grandfather Wilhelm started a weekly prayer group in 1844 in the city of Haarlem, near Amsterdam for the ...read more

  • Bearing The Mark

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,435 views

    BEARING THE MARK Joseph Damien was a nineteenth-century missionary who ministered to people with leprosy on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. Those suffering grew to love him and revered the sacrificial life he lived out before them. One morning before Damien was to lead daily worship, he was ...read more

  • True Poverty

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 5, 2009
     | 1,897 views

    TRUE POVERTY The second theme in our passage is to strengthen and support the weak and the suffering. My friend at the Gazette also mentioned visiting his daughter in Kenya when she was a Peace Corp volunteer out in the desert areas in the western part of the country. He said that trip had ...read more

  • He Went To Hell For Me

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 12, 2009
     | 1,634 views

    HE WENT TO HELL FOR ME Kay Arthur, well-known Christian author and speaker, has influenced tens of thousands. As a young girl, she went to church. She wrote, "I would listen to the messages, and go to Sunday School, but I never really committed my life to Jesus." She grew up and got married, ...read more

  • Seven Life Lessons From Samson

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Nov 13, 2022
     | 687 views

    Certainly the story of Samson and the prostitute of Gaza stands as a cautionary tale to all of us. Here are some of the obvious lessons: 1) Just because we think we have conquered a certain sin doesn’t mean it will stay conquered forever. 2) The price of long-term spiritual victory is continued ...read more

  • Remission

    Contributed by Lou Butterfield on Sep 5, 2011
     | 3,196 views

    REMISSION While a graduate student at Indiana University and also serving as youth minister at the North Central church in Bloomington, I had an experience I will never forget. I woke up early on this particular Sunday morning to get to the building in time to drive one of the church buses to ...read more

  • I Saw This Incredible Answer To Prayer For Healing

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 13, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 389 views

    While pastoring a Southern Baptist church in Texas, one day I heard that one of our church members was in the hospital after being bitten by a brown recluse spider. It was a pretty serious situation. The doctor had told the young mom that they may have to amputate her hand if the swelling did not ...read more

  • How About My Son Joshua's Hero. Chicago Bear, # ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jun 18, 2002
    based on 12 ratings
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    How about my son Joshua’s hero. Chicago Bear, # 34, Walter (Jerry) Payton. As a whole Walter Payton played with a loosing record. The Bears were not very successful. Walter was told he was too little and came from a little place, Columbia, Miss. Many people told Walter what he could not do. ...read more

  • In A Sermon By Ken Hemphill, Former President Of ...

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Sep 27, 2004
     | 1,719 views

    In a sermon by Ken Hemphill, former President of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary he tells of a Sunday evening after church. He stopped by a pizza parlor on the way home from church. While waiting for the pizza, he went next store to a grocery store and there got a carton of milk. ...read more

  • Forever Faithful  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 30, 2001
    based on 41 ratings
     | 4,257 views

    FOREVER FAITHFUL Some of us can remember the Sunday morning terrorist bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, in which hundreds of Americans were killed or wounded as they slept. Many of us can still recall the terrible scenes as the dazed survivors worked to dig out their trapped brothers from ...read more

  • One Mother's Day I Was Preaching In Another State ...

    Contributed by Jim Blevins on May 16, 2009
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     | 4,135 views

    One Mother’s Day I was preaching in another state and during the Sunday School class I told about one of the two times that I sassed my mother. Now my mother is about 4 foot 11 inches tall and I was approaching 6 foot so I towered over her. She had told me to do something and I told her she wasn’t ...read more

  • Forcing Doors Or Build Bridges

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 12, 2009
     | 3,143 views

    FORCING DOORS OR BUILD BRIDGES There were two unmarried sisters who had such a bitter fight that they stopped speaking to each other. Unable or unwilling to leave their small home, they continued to use the same rooms and sleep in the same bedroom. A chalk line divided the sleeping area into two ...read more

  • Forgiving The Unrepentant By R.t. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2009
     | 3,401 views

    Forgiving the Unrepentant by R.T. Kendall In an article by R.T. Kendall titled, ‘Forgiving the Unrepentant’, he recalls an incident that happened to him. “When I was minister of Westminster Chapel in London, the people who had betrayed me didn’t think they had done one thing wrong. You could have ...read more

  • A Man Came Back From A Weekend Retreat Experience ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 28, 2010
     | 1,191 views

    A man came back from a weekend retreat experience and, when a friend asked him how it was, he said, "I died!" The friend asked him what he meant. "You see," the man answered, "I went to this thing not knowing what to expect. But in the process of that long weekend, I discovered that I had spent ...read more

  • We Need Christ In Good Times And Bad

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2011
     | 2,325 views

    WE NEED CHRIST IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD Presbyterian minister of the 19th century, J. R. Miller, once wrote that "We need Christ just as much in our bright, prosperous, exalted hours as in the days of darkness, adversity, and depression. We are quite in danger of thinking that religion is only for ...read more

  • Mother's Arms

    Contributed by Eugene Morell on Feb 24, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,670 views

    MOTHER'S ARMS There was a teenager who didn’t want to be seen in public with her mother, because her mother’s arms were terribly disfigured. One day when her mother took her shopping and reached out her hand, a clerk looked horrified. Later, crying, the girl told her how embarrassed she was. ...read more

  • Avoid ...

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 1, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,651 views

    AVOID TRAGEDY David Bloom, Today show co-host on weekends, died on April 6, 2003, while covering Operation Iraqi Freedom. Ironically, Bloom did not die from injuries sustained in conflict, but rather of a pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary emboli occur among those who sit for long periods of time, and ...read more

  • The Gravedigger's Cough

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Nov 29, 2012
     | 2,867 views

    English writer F.W. Boreham tells a story about an old gravedigger who had a terrible cough. A visitor to the cemetery expressed sympathy to the old man and his cough. The gravedigger motioned to the graves around him and said, “There’s plenty here who would be glad of my cough.” His point being ...read more

  • The Simplicity Of The Gospel

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Jan 31, 2022
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,844 views

    How does the thief on the cross fit into your theology? I think many times we complicate the issue of getting into heaven. What is required? Let's think about the the thief on the cross. No baptism, no communion, no confirmation, no speaking in tongues, no mission trip, no volunteerism, and ...read more

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